With a current workforce of 182 employees in seven locations throughout the United States, Integrated Project Management Company, Inc. (IPM) is a privately held business consulting company, providing leadership to transform strategies and solutions into sustainable results. President and CEO C. Richard Panico founded IPM in 1988 as the first project management consulting firm in the United States. It helped evolve the discipline of project management while creating proprietary methodologies to supplement the practice. IPM’s origin was manufacturing-related projects, but the company now serves virtually every area of an organization’s model, from transforming strategy to reality, to planning and implementing a myriad of functional and cross-functional operational improvement initiatives. IPM offers specialized services in ten areas essential to its targeted industries, which are life sciences, consumer products, industrial products, and health care.